Across national, state and local contexts, Viki Young leads research studies featuring mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, with a particular focus on teaching and learning within embedded contexts and the system supports, resources, incentives and disincentives that shape change and unintended consequences. She has studied the implementation and impact of K–12 policy and improvement initiatives, including high school reform, inclusive STEM high school models, instructional coaching and educator development, and school choice initiatives. As co-leader of the Center for Inclusive Innovation at Digital Promise, she is building inclusive research practices into an equity-centered R&D model, Inclusive Innovation, with students from historically and systematically excluded communities and those closest to educational challenges co-leading the R&D process. Before joining Digital Promise in 2019, she was Director of the Center for Education Policy at SRI International. She holds a Ph.D. in education administration and policy analysis from Stanford University.
